Note that the edges to the lines are sharp. Ink flow is fine but the primary colour inks flow more smoothly with the dip pen. Overall, the earth tone inks looks thicker than the other colours. The bubbles also affect how the ink will flow in a dip pen. When the earth tone bottles are shaken too hard, they will produce bubbles and if you don't want for the bubbles to disappear, they are going to appear in the wash. The inks are able to retain a sharp edge so this makes them good for drawing or calligraphy work. The primary colours are really vibrant and intense. These are the colour swatched I painted out with a brush. This issue only happens to the earth tone colours in this set. So before using them, the bottles have to be shaken to mix up the contents. This happens when those bottles are in stationary position after a while. If you get the plastic bottle, you have to spend extra to buy droppers and you have to clean the droppers after each use so that not to contaminate other colours.įor some colours, namely Terra Cotta, Yellow Ochre, Sepia and Van Dyke Brown, there's a tendency for the binder to separate from the pigment. The dropper allows you to extract ink out of the bottle easily for mixing. The other reason is the eye-dropper included is very convenient. The problem with the cap is one main reason why I would recommend the 30ml glass bottle to the 15ml bottle. Make sure the glue has dried before putting the cap back on. To prevent this, you can use some glue to stick the seal to the back of the cap. When I opened the bottles, many of them had the seal stuck to the opening. The 30ml bottles are made of glass and come with droppers. The smaller 15ml bottles are made of plastic. The only two colours that are opaque are black and white. I was actually expecting them to be opaque. These Bombay India inks are meant to be transparent. Golden Yellow, Orange, Tangerine, Crimson, Cherry Red, Red Violet, Aqua, Turquoise, Yellow Ochre, Terra Cotta, Van Dyke Brown and Sepia Yellow, Red, Magenta, Green, Blue, Brown, Black, White, Violet, Bright Red, Teal, Grass Green You can get each colour individually, or get them in 12-bottle sets. That I'm not too sure about because these are pigmented inks after all.ĭr. The leaked ink dried and adhered quite strongly to the plastic - you probably need to scrap that off with a screw driver.Īnother claim is the inks are non-clogging when used in pens. Martin's claim that these inks would "adhere to nearly all surfaces" and it seems like the case here when the ink leaked in the packaging. They are waterproof when dry, and lightfast. I did not know that there were coloured versions of India ink until now. The only India inks I know of so far are all black-coloured inks. The bottles can either be laid flat or upright in the white plastic holder, which also doubles up as a mixing palette. I don't think it's the problem with shipping, but it's just the way the bottles are designed. Thankfully there's still quite a bit of ink left in the bottle. Unfortunately, one of the bottles leaked during shipping and messed up the packaging. Martin's Bombay India Inks that I bought recently.
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